Why Did the Black Community Leave the GOP for the Democratic Party?
The Democratic Party has been stellar at spinning a revisionist history where the righteous among their ranks fought “tirelessly” to further the cause of Civil Rights, women’s rights – indeed human rights – throughout time immemorial.
In fairness, progressives have had one lynchpin to their argument: Then-President Lyndon B. Johnson did sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The fact that the crux of the bill was drafted and pushed through Congress by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, and the fact that LBJ staunchly opposed the passing of Civil Rights legislation in the decades leading up to his presidency, bears little relevance on the left’s present-day narrative.
Likewise, the Ku Klux Klan – the disgraced racist organization to which even Democratic President Harry Truman belonged — was founded by Democrats and, in a sense, operated at one point as the de facto militant branch of the party.
Today, spurred by Republican lawmakers’ efforts to introduce voter ID laws in their respective states, cries of “Jim Crow” are routinely leveled against Republicans by their democratic counterparts and ideological foes. What is perhaps most ironic (and damning), however, is that de jure racism was in fact brought to bear by Democrats, who instated Jim Crow laws, poll taxes and even created the KKK in Southern States. Pastor C.L. Bryant, director of the documentary “Runaway Slave” spoke to TheBlaze extensively for the first installment of this report about the historical significance of Democrats’ past:
Bryant, director of the provocative documentary “Runaway Slave” and a former NAACP leader himself, acknowledged that it was in fact Democrats who “stood in the way” of civil rights and progress with their collective push for Jim Crow laws, poll taxes and at the University of Alabama in 1963, when then-Democratic Governor George Wallace, in a symbolic protest against desegregation, stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium to affirm his pledge of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” [...]
Bryant marveled at the idea that, if asked today, a majority of Blacks would invariably say that the KKK and Jim Crow were Republicans creations, when it couldn’t be further from the truth. “They are just that misinformed.”
It comes as no surprise that the Left has kept mum about its past transgressions, but why are conservatives so reticent to defend their historic connection to civil rights?
Perhaps Republicans feel that an attempt to reach out to minorities would be an effort in futility, as they see it a forgone conclusion that Blacks and Hispanics will invariably vote Democrat. After all, the Left has established that if one is not in favor of raising taxes to fund welfare programs, that person must surely be a racist. Still, with facts and figures on their side, one cannot help but wonder if Republicans are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
So what, then, prompted this mass-migration of minorities to the Democratic Party?
Photo Source: Black Quill blog
Some members of the Left claim that two catalysts were the “Dixiecrats” — the short-lived segregationist party that had splintered off from the Democratic Party in 1948 and Republican President Richard Nixon’s purported “Southern Strategy” (despite the fact that Nixon was a staunch supporter of Civil Rights).
A certain contingent assert that it was Republicans’ “Southern Strategy” under Nixon that turned the tide. According to liberals, this strategy was a method employed by Nixon to garner the white vote in Southern states by pandering to its residents’ primary concern: Desegregation. He allegedly did so by using “dog whistle” (this is where the term originates) terminology and “code speak” to signal that Republicans would not stand in the way of ”states rights” to oppose integration.
The alleged coup de grace occurred when Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Thus, the liberal narrative goes that racist Southern Democrats became Republican.
Now for the Southern Strategy theory to hold water, one would have to point to statistical data that showed Blacks migrated to the Democratic party directly following Nixon’s campaign. The trouble is that there was a marked flux in the number of Black Americans who voted Democrat from as early as the 1913 to 1921 presidency of Woodrow Wilson, a man often dubbed a “virulent racist.”
This trend followed suit with election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. FDR garnered 71 percent of the Black vote during his first presidential bid and fared similarly in his subsequent elections. Yet, FDR opposed anti-lynching laws and appointed two members of the Ku Klux Klan to positions of great authority. First, Harry Truman as his vice president and then another Klansman as his Supreme Court appointee. Likewise, it has been argued that FDR himself harbored prejudice against Blacks.
Even more confounding, is that Harry Truman — a Klansman himself — garnered 77 percent of the Black vote in 1948. While he was credited with desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces, Truman vehemently opposed Civil Rights legislation leading up to and during his presidency.
Photo Source: Truman Library
The trend continued…
The trend followed suit into the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Democrats like John F. Kennedy and LBJ, who famously stated: “Get ready to take up the Goddamned nigra bill again,” fought ardently against Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Civil Rights legislation of 1957 and had each consistently opposed other attempts at ensuring racial equality in America.
It is a generally accepted belief that LBJ only signed the Civil Rights Act due to the mounting pressure of the time and general environment in which he functioned. Recall that emotions were running high with Vietnam War protests, Dr. Martin Luther King’s marches and emergence onto the Civil Rights scene, and riots fueled by racial tension. With this, LBJ was said to have acquiesced, albeit reluctantly, to hopping on board the Civil Rights bandwagon. Now, with a tabla rasa, Democrats could (and have) co-opt racial equality as their own invention.
Of all the theories, the “Southern Strategy” argument is perhaps the one best-documented and most often cited reason liberals give when attempting to explain why Blacks fled the Republican Party in droves. But the motivations must go deeper than is clear at first blush.
TheBlaze took to the floor at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina to speak with convention-goers and find out why they think Black Americans shifted away from the GOP.
One 65-year-old delegate from Wyoming attempted to explain why he has been a Democrat for his entire life. Beginning with John F. Kennedy and LBJ, he told TheBlaze that he credits those two presidents as proponents of Civil Rights. He then pointed blame to Richard Nixon and the Southern Strategy as a reason for Black Americans’ migration to the Democratic Party. To understand where this thought-process comes from, it is perhaps prudent to note that JFK did indeed take credit for advances in Civil Rights during his political years. The JFK Library states:
By the 1960 presidential campaign, Civil Rights had emerged as a crucial issue. Just a few weeks before the election, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested while leading a protest in Atlanta, Georgia. John Kennedy phoned Coretta Scott King to express his concern while a call from Robert Kennedy to the judge helped secure her husband’s safe release. The Kennedys’ personal intervention led to a public endorsement by Martin Luther King, Sr., the influential father of the civil rights leader.
In the fall of 1963, soon after Dr. King delivered his famed “I Have a Dream” speech, the legislation that would come to be known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed Congress, however President Kennedy was assassinated in November and the bill could not be signed until LBJ became president. The library adds:
Before becoming vice president, Johnson had served more than two decades in Congress as a congressman and senator from Texas. He used his connections with southern white congressional leaders and the outpouring of emotion after the president’s assassination to pass the Civil Rights Act as a way to honor President Kennedy.
Thus, Kennedy, too, has been held in high esteem by the Black community despite his initial hesitancy to endorse various Civil Rights pushes. Still, that does not explain Black support for Democrats in the days prior to Kennedy.
When TheBlaze reminded one delegate that Blacks voted for Harry Truman, a KKK member himself, by 77 percent, he seemed to brush off the president’s checkered past, saying that ”in that time, everybody under the Mason Dixon line were active members [of the KKK] or had family who was.” He also said that Blacks give credit to Truman for desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces.
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was also present at the Democratic Convention and had some interesting thoughts to share. He believes that the Black community in the 1930s was also affected by the Great Depression and may have seen FDR in a more favorable light based on their own socio-economic positions. He added that Republicans’ Southern Strategy, coupled with a decline in GOP outreach efforts are all collectively responsible for the balance tilting.
Steele places an onus on Republicans, however, to better articulate their historic link with Blacks in an honest way. “It’s not just appealing to a social agenda, it’s an entire philosophy and idea,” he told TheBlaze.
“You won’t join a party where you don’t feel wanted. African Americans forget we voted 90/10 for Republicans… just like 94/0 for Democrats today. It’s incumbent on the party [GOP] to make that step.”
Another Black delegate who spoke with TheBlaze agreed, stating that “if you [GOP] don’t reach out to a segment of the population… then you will lose their vote.”
During the course of the convention, Black delegates were open about their view that Democrats have “always” been there for Blacks and that they themselves had been Democrats their entire lives. Even when reminded about Jim Crow and the fact that Civil Rights legislation — the one signed by LBJ — was drafted by a Republican — the delegates at the DNC didn’t seem fazed.
Overall, those consulted for this article view government involvement in a favorable light and believe Uncle Sam is a positive force for good. Speaking to this idea in greater detail was syndicated columnist and author Jonah Goldberg, who posited that even when Black Americans identified themselves primarily as Republican, they were still about “big government.”
He told TheBlaze that because the government had always stepped in to help Blacks out of dire situations — from the days of Reconstruction to when Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to quell a protest against the integration of a school — the Black community has come to rely on its presence heavily.
Goldberg suggests that the plight of Black Americans in the country was demonstrably improved on more than one occasion by government intervention.
“When you consider their [Blacks] historical narrative…conservatives shouldn’t be too glib,” he said, explaining that Blacks have legitimate reasons to look favorably on government.
Whatever the reasons, Goldberg ceded that Blacks need to also realize that the solutions to their problems don’t come from Uncle Sam alone.
“I think that the lesson to take away is this idea that government is a solution to problems is deeply pernicious over the long haul. “The standard American narrative of ‘by the bootstraps’ is much more complicated” for Blacks. ”They have good and legitimately grounded reasons for favoring government.”
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Comments (182)
FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:24pmDo you hear a lot of people on the Blaze talking down on Asians? No, not really. Why is that? Why are Asians more widely accepted in America? Is it because they value education and hardwork? Do Asian Americans constantly remind Americans how they were treated poorly during the late 1800′s and early 1900′s. Do Germans remind people of how German Americans were lynched on site in cities across America after the Luciatania was sunk. Do Jews remind us how they weren’t allowed to bank at banks or even rent hotel rooms, or do they save up and buy the damn hotels and banks. Black people aren’t progressing that’s why there is racism towards them, because it’s evident to everyone that as a whole they are a drag on society.
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13th Imam
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:19pmIrish need not apply.
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:23pmOne word zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz FREEBIES…”.
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FaithfulFriend
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:20pmClass and race warfare, self victimization blah, blah, blah.
Let’s try this as a solution. From now on democrats take care of their own how they see fit and republicans take care of their own as they see fit. In 10 years we’ll come back to the table and see who has conquered the problems.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:27pmAs long as after the 10 years we don’t have to help them out of the sorry state they’ll be in.
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FaithfulFriend
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:36pmYou’re right on. Let’s make it 4 years and no we won’t help them except by example.
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TROLLMONGER
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:17pmTypical comment from a typical right wing racist. So sad.
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JBLACK
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 6:47pmTROLLMONGER Playing time:
38.6 hrs past 2 weeks You play more video games than most liberals work in a MONTH! HAHAHA you dont even live in the USA Do you??? IM thinking Canada
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horsefeathers99
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:17pmIf the liberals would stop accusing conservatives of racism with no proof, liberal politicians with their violent verbal racist attacks, and a few ministers (some who are black of the above), we could move on to heal what they want to keep alive.
I enjoy fun and a good times when in conversation with blacks and people of all color. They are beautiful in their own ways and always in Gods eyes.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:24pmbeautiful??
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:26pmSee that right there is the problem.
Do you EVER EVER EVER think those words leave a black persons mouth unless they’re talking about our women??
They don’t like us and that’s fine with me. Whites are the only ones who bought into this multiculturalism crap and now we’re paying for it. And I wish that we were only paying for it with our paychecks.
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:33pm@DIMMUBORGIR… Let me see if i have this straight.. You’re a racist because because black guys in the Marines say “Sup dawg” and no black people have ever told you that you’re beautiful?
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:43pmyup you got it.
Honestly, dawg, I didn’t feel like writing a novel on all the racism I’ve seen among blacks.
And I get told I’m beautiful all the time, so there.
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I Luv America
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:55pmCheck out this story. Talk about racism!!! Proof that the liberals are enjoying their double standards.
http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/09/the-open-racism-of-vote-black-buttons-at-dnc/
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:17pmIf the republican party can articulate the message of freedom and explain how government has been the root cause of so many problems in our society – the wall of ignorance will be torn down
Despite the so-called “ron paul newsletters’, i have met a lot of black folks who appreciate ron paul because he is consistent, not a corporatist, and favors elimination of the federal war on drugs
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13th Imam
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:24pmPfffftttt
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:38pmbuuuut, then they are dismissed in similar fashion and go back to being democrat trolls
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Walkabout
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:28pmA leftist /Democrat will say that all that is ancient history. they will say they are for Civil Rights now & that Republicans got all the racist white folk who use to be Democrats when Nixon embarked on his Southern Strategy.
Therefore their **** literally does not stink whereas our does.
You can argue what the Southern strategy really was. You can argue what that you might want votes but young are not going to pander or implement people’s baser desires. It doesn’t matter. The Southern Strategy is their Holy Grail. It doesn’t matter that affirmative action was not stopped or reversed by Nixon. He is the one that gave the EPA & OSHA a big push. Between Nixon being evil incarnate & the Southern Strategy, the left has innocculated itself from criticism, it believes.
P.S. it Doesn’t matter the Byrd was so happy that he got to play a Southern General in the movie Gods & Generals. It raises no suspicions at all among the left.
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TROLLMONGER
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:17pmThe huge number of anti-black comments spit out on this site by the right wing Beckbots everyday is evidence enough why they went to the democrats.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:31pmSo is the nazi battle flag supposed to be ironic??
oh how cool you are, irony and liberalism. If I were a 19 year old girl you’d probably be the coolest and smartest person in the whole university cafeteria.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:38pmSo who’s responsible for making you a fool? Libs always have someone else to blame for making them foolish,confess who did it?
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:05pmNo the evidence is clear a poor education and the true understanding of democracy.
The name Democrat has nothing to do with democracy hence the confusion.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 2:43pmWhere? Who said it? Don’t make these claims without quotes. How many times have people told you to make your criticisms SPECIFIC and NOT general?
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Melvin Spittle
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:14pmI saw a man beating his girlfriend in a parking garage and immediately intervened. What thanks did I get? His girlfriend jumped on me and started beating me. This is the relationship many progressives have with their elected leaders.
Warning: Attempting to understand the actions of liberals is directly linked to CES (Cranial Explosion Syndrome).
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loriann12
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:35pmBreak out the duct tape, I hear it helps. At least the pieces will all be there, because duct tape sticks to everything.
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tothepoint
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:14pmIn 1958 Republican Pres. Eisenhower tried to pass a Civil Rights Bill. Then Speaker of the House Lyndon Johnson sent to bill to committee, never to be heard from again, by Johnson’s choice.
When Johnson became President, he resurrected the bill as if it was his own and got it passed.
Further, Democrat Margaret Sanger started Planned Parenthood (under another name) to keep blacks and other people of skin darker than whites, from having so many babies because Sanger and the Dems thought those people of darker skin were inferior to whites. Democrat Sanger spoke at the Democrat founded K K K meetings.
The Dems have a terrrible Civil Rights history but lie about it and hide it.
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floridareader
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:20pmSomething they have been good at is in twisting history in their favor, all with lies.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/an-open-letter-to-democrats/
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booger71
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:42pmThe winners get to write the history.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:13pmso which are you? black or a traitor?
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GoodStuff
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:12pmIt’s real simple. Blacks had been supporting the GOP for 100 years dating back to the civil war. The Democrats realized this needed to end, so in the 50′s/60′s they embraced the welfare state, promising blacks an endless supply of handouts. Sadly, black people took the bait and they’ve been slaves to the welfare state and the Democrat plantation ever since.
Democrat politicians on the other hand, need blacks to stay poor and on welfare in order to continue to receive there vote. This is why Dems have no interest in getting rid of welfare. If black people were able to get off welfare, they would have no further reason to vote Democrat.
This is a co-dependency that no one wants to talk about. God bless those black conservatives that use their head and escape the Democrat welfare plantation.
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TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 11:29pmRemember the scene on the Godfather, when the heads of the 5 families met to discuss the end of the war?
The mobs determined (in reality) to run narcotics thru black neighborhoods, using their political allies (mostly union democrat) to give them cover. The results of that, combined with the welfare offered to women whose husbands were killed, jailed, or strung out led to the destruction of the black family. The black family was the MODEL, and in 2 decades was wiped out by the mob running drugs, the gov’t “war” on drugs, and the gov’t giving a “hand-up.”
But people will believe whatever they find to reinforce what they believe. To hell with truth.
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:11amDespite prevailing stereotype, Whites, not Blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:14amWelfare: A White Secret
Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. No, nothing to do with age spots or those indoor-tanning creams we use to get us through the | winter without looking like the final stages of TB. Nor am I talking about the fact that we all go home and practice funky dance moves behind drawn shades. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. Yep. At least it’s no more black than Vanilla Ice is a fair rendition of classic urban rap.
Despite prevailing stereotype, Whites, not Blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars
SAY the word “welfare” and immediately the image of the lazy Black welfare queen who breeds for profit surfaces in the minds of those who have come to believe the hideous stereotype. It is a myth that persists despite government figures and authoritative studies showing that Whites overwhelmingly reap the lion’s share of the dole.The image of the Black “welfare cheat,” public aid advocates say, is based on misconceptions about poor minorities. The notion, they say, comes from society’s resentment of seemingly able-bodied people getting paid for doing nothing.
“For some people, there is a need to believe that there are
professional welfare recipients who are deliberately trying to get not
only what they need to survive, but more,” says Anne D. Hill, director
of programs for the National Urban League. “People say t
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:43amAmong the poorest of the poor–single mothers, living below the poverty line with minor children to support 39.7 percent of AFDC clients are Black single mothers and 38.1 percent are White women with children. Food stamp recipients are 37.2 percent Black and 46.2 percent White. Medicaid benefits are paid to 27.5 percent Black recipients compared to 48.5 percent White clients.
Although the numbers show that Whites get the biggest chunk of public aid dollars, welfare critics still charge that Blacks shouldn’t collect 33 percent of welfare benefits when they only make up 12 percent of the general population. They say the imbalance proves their case that Blacks are too busy complaining and blaming racism for their plight to look for a job.
“Disagree Intelligently, Use The Facts, Truth & Common Sense.”
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Nevermind
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:07pmMr.Fitnah
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:55pm
Why? lies and poor education.
Now codependency and hand outs are a life style .
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Perhaps black people dont like the GOP due to being sterotyped in the manner you have. I am black and have a degree and have i ever taken a handout. Only time i got a check form Uncle Sam was when i served in the USAF. But please, got ahead and assume all black people lack education and get hand outs.
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GoodStuff
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:15pm“got ahead and assume all black people lack education and get hand outs.”
Not all…but most. That’s the problem.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:16pmAnd i’m sure when you were in the Air Force you were really a Black man in the Air Force. You know, chillin around with the other Blacks regardless of rank. Sagging your uniform like you’re some prison boyfriend. Greeting your black superiors with “sup dawg”
Don’t even act like that didn’t happen, I was in the F’ing Marine Corps and that still happened. Air Force is like band camp compared to the Marines
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tothepoint
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:22pmYou are missing the whole point of this article by assuming the “victim role.”
Please re-read the article, step back from your “victimhood,” embrace the truth and move on.
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13th Imam
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:23pmYet, it’s mainly true. College educated evidently means little and the percentage of Takers in your community is very high. Whine as you will, your race pimp leaders are keeping ya on the plantation.
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Max jones
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:32pmYou sir, are to be commended and held up as example to the poor black folk that are still enslaved by the demonic system that insures they stay ignorant and unable to think for themselves. You were obviously educated in a place where education was more important than liberal indoctrination…not so for most blacks. If you are really concerned. check it out.
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Melvin Spittle
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:33pmLet’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. The majority of Black voters vote democrat. Unfortunately, if you attempt to produce an academic peer reviewed study that may support an unpopular theory, you will be attacked and branded a racist. There are some sensitive subject areas that will never be studied in depth because feelings matter more than the truth. No matter what the truth may be, you must be willing to accept it for what it is and in proper context and weight.
The deception lives on….
Treat all citizens the same. No race based subsidies. No discrimination. ANY discrimination based on race should be severely punished no matter which race initiates the discrimination. There will never be racial equality until we are all treated as equals and quit handicapping folks through programs that perpetuate their social and economic status. These programs are meant to keep folks in economic slavery and servitude to the state and federal government. One votes for the politician that will promise them a continued stream of support, which is another form of slavery. Liberals DO NOT WANT YOU TO SUCCEED: If you do, they may lose a constituent.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:38pmusually when someone says “fine go ahead and believe…”
it’s cause they know it’s probably true and don’t want to admit they agree
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tcseacliff
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:06pmNC37BUG, because the black democrats want it that way. there is no “white vote’ , we vote, along side any other Americans who “vote, but these guys love their race card and race baiting. just look at the panthers, this is their style so they embrace the “black vote” but if you point it out, you are a racist.. they do not see their own hypocrisy , and Obama a nd his v crew play on that angle for votes. same as the “hipamic vote”. well, I am jus a plain ‘ol “voter”!, period!
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Melvin Spittle
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:06pmThis supports my long held theory that they suffer from collective Stockholm syndrome.
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:03pmTo answer your question “Why Did the Black Community Leave the GOP for the Democratic Party?”
The DEMS offer more handouts for the VOTE!
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 6:06amThe Democrats offered the biggest handout of all – the vote itself. This article doesn’t contain a single mention of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or why it was necessary. That’s a huge omission. And yes, I know that it was mostly Democrats in the south that made it necessary. I also know that in both the House and Senate a higher percentage of Democrats than Republicans voted against it (though higher numbers of Democrats than Republicans voted for it, since they had a big majority in both houses). That doesn’t matter; it was Lyndon Johnson’s baby. He proposed it and lined up the votes. He gets and deserves most of the credit, and you can blame Nixon for the Republicans not being able to claim the credit they deserve for their part in its passage.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 2:46pmHahaha oh Chet. It was LBJ who rejected the voting rights act the first time around in 1957. He was against civil rights before he was for it. We have stacks of racist quotes said by LBJ that proves he is among the last of a dying breed of Dixiecrats. But nice try.
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 7:22pmJohnson didn’t kill the Civil rights Act of 1957, he got it passed in a watered-down form. That was the best he could do at that time.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:14pmAnd you think he wasn’t responsible for watering it down? That’s cute
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:51pmNo, I know that he was responsible for getting it watered down, I think that whether he would have wanted to pass it in it’s original form or not, that was just not possible at the time.
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:37amAlthough the numbers show that Whites get the biggest chunk of public aid dollars, welfare critics still charge that Blacks shouldn’t collect 33 percent of welfare benefits when they only make up 12 percent of the general population. They say the imbalance proves their case that Blacks are too busy complaining and blaming racism for their plight to look for a job.
But racism is at the heart of the standard-of-living gap between Blacks and Whites, welfare advocates argue. Unlawful race-based hiring practices, they contend, keep Blacks from getting jobs that pay enough to lift them out of poverty. Until more blue-collar jobs open up to Black workers, Blacks will continue to battle poverty and the freeloader misconception.
Turning welfare reform into a “Black issue” makes racial scapegoating easy and allows stereotypes, like the Reagan era “welfare queen,” to go unchallenged, public aid supporters say. Right wing reformers cast Whites as “deserving” clients who are legitimately unable to pay their own way through no fault of their own. Blacks are labeled “undeserving” recipients who are looking for the feds to subsidize their slothfulness.
Now….reading the facts and truth listed above in this article….who actually are the recipients of welfare in the United States Of America? Caucasians by far.
I will list the facts and truth one more time….for those too ignorant, blind or racist to have comprehended them above….read them again below…..
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woodyee
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:01pm…and THANK YOU, Tiffany Gabbay, for this timely article!
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huey6367
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:01pmBlack and white, if you take what is said and do no research you are a Democrat. Republicans are better educated and I don’t mean that they have more education from a higher learning institution.
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hidden_lion
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:07pmsimple-
Blacks left GOP for free stuff.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:00pmGet ready to take up the Goddamned nigra bill again,” Classic democrat,priceless.
Another Black delegate who spoke with TheBlaze agreed, stating that “if you [GOP] don’t reach out to a segment of the population… then you will lose their vote.Translation: You promise the freebies you get the votes.
”They have good and legitimately grounded reasons for favoring government.”
They sure do,government keeps them on the teet where they’re easily controlled a voting bloc for life.
All you have to do is keep voting for your democrat and they’ll keep you comfortable in your ‘poverty’.
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WE_GOTTA_LET_HIM_GO
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:39pmRemember when Mitt Romney “reached out” to the NAACP (which took major balls by the way)? They nearly booed him off the stage after he slammed the Obamacare for what it was, a business/jobs killer that downgrades the quality of the entire healthcare system. It doesn’t matter what chart, graph, or off-the-chart spending trajectory you put in front of their face. It doesn’t matter that 22% of all young blacks up to age 29 are unemployed. They’ve been bought by the liberal wing of the party which keeps forking over the goods and free stuff in exchange for votes. It’s hard to reach out when you are shouted down, silenced and labeled a racist for criticizing what deserves to be criticized, even when it’s as obvious as the nose on your face.
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:27amWelfare: A White Secret
Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. No, nothing to do with age spots or those indoor-tanning creams we use to get us through the | winter without looking like the final stages of TB. Nor am I talking about the fact that we all go home and practice funky dance moves behind drawn shades. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. Yep. At least it’s no more black than Vanilla Ice is a fair rendition of classic urban rap.
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:32amHill and other welfare supporters argue that numbers, and not erroneous stereotypes, tell the real story about public assistance clients: Some 61 percent of welfare recipients are White, while 33 percent are Black, according to 1990 Census Bureau statistics, the latest figures available.
The federal government defines welfare as all entitlement programs funded through taxes. These programs, listed as “direct benefit payments for individuals” by the Office of Management and Budget, make up $730 billion or 43 percent of the $1.47 trillion the government will spend this fiscal year.
Social Security is the nation’s largest welfare program, although many Whites prefer to call it a retirement plan. The government writes retirement and disability benefit checks to 35.4 million recipients of whom 88.7 percent are White and 9.6 percent are Black. The reason behind this shocking disparity is perhaps the most lamentable of all: The life expectancy rate for Blacks is six years shorter than that of Whites, meaning Black workers spend years paying into a retirement system only to have White retirees reap the benefits for a longer time.
Welfare critics rarely search the Social Security rolls for “welfare cheats,” but train their sights on people getting Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid and food stamps, the relief programs with the most Black clients. Yet government figures show that Whites not Blacks make up the bulk of clients on these public aid progra
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KEEPITREALFOR1
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:40amSome 61 percent of welfare recipients are White, while 33 percent are Black, according to 1990 Census Bureau statistics, the latest figures available.
The federal government defines welfare as all entitlement programs funded through taxes. These programs, listed as “direct benefit payments for individuals” by the Office of Management and Budget, make up $730 billion or 43 percent of the $1.47 trillion the government will spend this fiscal year.
Social Security is the nation’s largest welfare program, although many Whites prefer to call it a retirement plan. The government writes retirement and disability benefit checks to 35.4 million recipients of whom 88.7 percent are White and 9.6 percent are Black. The reason behind this shocking disparity is perhaps the most lamentable of all: The life expectancy rate for Blacks is six years shorter than that of Whites, meaning Black workers spend years paying into a retirement system only to have White retirees reap the benefits for a longer time.
Welfare critics rarely search the Social Security rolls for “welfare cheats,” but train their sights on people getting Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid and food stamps, the relief programs with the most Black clients. Yet government figures show that Whites not Blacks make up the bulk of clients on these public aid programs; a fact that dispels the notion that Blacks are scheming for a free lunch courtesy of the American taxpayer.
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blackyb
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:58pmWe didn’t need the stupid ones, anyway. Let them go. I guess there was not enough freebees.
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TIME_THE_AVENGER
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:57pmTo get to the other side. Too bad they don’t know it sucks yet.
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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:17pmIf you’re IQ is low it’s easy to convince you to vote one way or the other so long as the person doing the convincing is willing to ignore their ideals and say what that person wants to hear.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:56pmWhy are we not ‘Americans’ of all backgrounds first, foremost and always?
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Max jones
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 4:34pmI generally enjoy your posts snow, but this time you got a bit moronic….We are not all America first people any more. The people who vote for Obama are “me-first” people. That is why the debt and entitlements are so out of hand. They would rather we become a communist dictatorship, than grab their own bootstraps. Would rather the whole country collapse than lose a nickle of their entitlements. Would rather remove the investment incentives than tell the cities they need to tighten their reigns, because the blacks wouldn’t like it.
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Nevermind
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:55pmAs i black man i can asnwer this rather easily. Not all republicans are racist but i havent met a racist that wasnt a republican. Hows that?
This artile is sad and has a HS level of historical accuracy. There is a difference between southern dems and northern dems just as ther ewas with northen and southern republicans. Actually there is too much silliness to even waste time on . Fact is go to a KK rally and ask them about dems or liberal policies and see how well that will go. Or you can just go to a tea party rally since that is where they recruit now.
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TIME_THE_AVENGER
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:58pm…your handle says it all…
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:02pmI wasn’t racist till I did 4 year in the Marine Corps.
That’s where I saw the truth. To black people, skin color trumps everything else.
I would see black PFCs walk up to black MSgts and give the traditional greeting of “sup dawg”
So why play by the “everyone is equal” rule if white people are the only ones being held to it.
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Turtleman
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:13pmNevermind-I have been to many, many TEA parties and I have never, never seen an out and out racist….Therefore, since you obviously haven’t been to one you speak of which you know nothing.
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RightUnite
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:14pmYou apparently don’t get out much… You’re a “black” man?? Ever been to the hood?? You’ll find plenty of racists there. Because I guarantee racism isn’t one sided.
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GoodStuff
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:17pm“but i havent met a racist that wasnt a republican”
You do live on planet Earth right?
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:20pmNevermind……like grand dragon democrat hero ROBERT BYRD, OR GEORGE WALLACE ????? The new slavery is welfare, the new plantation is the Democrat party……wake up man !
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:24pm@NEVERMIND… I have no idea what Klan rallies or TeaParty events are really like because i’ve never been to either. You must be a frequent attendee of both if you can make such confidant statements as to their activities and memberships? No? ..or have you just “heard some stuff”?
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grayling646
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:26pm@ NEVERMIND
See AVENGER’s response.
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tothepoint
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:31pmFirst of all, the Tea Party is not about racism, never was, and your claim is the typical “blackmail” used to keep people quiet from telling the truth about the failure Obama. We will no longer be silenced by the false “race card.” We are on to that.
Further, if the only “racists” you’ve ever met were Republicans, then you must have met a lot of Republicans of all races. There are black racists such as the New Black Panther Party and other black groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and they are not Republicans. I’ve met blacks who proudly laugh at how they treat white people in a racist manner so don’t try that old, “It’s always whites and Republicans” lie.
There are racists in all cultures and races. If you don’t know that, then you have not traveled around this big wide world much.
Having said all that I’ve also met wonderful people of all races, too, which is heartening in this world we live in where the threat of being called racist is used as a method of shutting people up.
Those wonderful people are the ones we gravitate too. The rest can go on flexing their “victimhood” muscle and continuing their lies. However, they no longer work. America is on to that game.
The article is true as printed. We know it doesn’t fit the narrative of some who enjoy calling others racist, but it is true.
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The-Real-Enrico
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:36pmAs a Black person I can easily say you are completely ignorant and uneducated in the matter. I grew up in a multicultural family black, hispanic, white, native American all in my direct blood line. This includes slave blood and native American. All of this growing up in the south, west Georgia to be exact.
I will call you out. You has never been to a Tea party and you don’t knew what you are talking about. You are just repeating lies your intellectual masters tell you to believe.
My family on both sides are conservatives/libertarians. We actually know what and who the real racist are because not just a few counties away from were I live is a official Klan store. I actually know what it is to truly experience racism from those people.
I have experienced racism more so from the liberal/progressive idealogical thinking man ether he be black or white than from anyone else. I grew up in the inner city down town Atlanta than moved out to country side. They have racist on both sides but 100% more in the down town area.
You will find true racism in the progressive utopias inner cities Detroit, Chicago, New York and LA. But please keep for voting the party spawned the KKK, fought to keep slavery, fought tooth & nail against the civil rights movement and continues to divide among race, class and creed.
Wake up buddy.
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Just_Us2
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:36pm“As i black man i can asnwer this rather easily. Not all republicans are racist but i havent met a racist that wasnt a republican. Hows that?”
Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. I see plenty of racism on the part of the Democratic party, Joe Biden is one of the biggest. The Democratic party philosophy is one that believes that minorities are unable to achieve up to levels of their white counterparts. They attribute this to discrimination even in communities where whites are a small percent of the demographic. Furthermore, Democratic tenets have set up minority communities where crime, incarceration, failing schools and unemployment are at disproportionately higher rates than in predominantly white communities. These minority communities are not run by Republicans, in fact you would be hard pressed to find a Republican in any position of power at any level of government from Mayor down to Dog Catcher. I would point to this as institutionalized racism, woven in to the fabric of the community. BILLIONS of tax dollars are disproportionately funneled in to these communities in the form of social programs, yet, no progress is made. Negative statistics continue to rise and the same people are voted in to lead. We are going on 50 years of this type of Democratic leadership.
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Max jones
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 5:16pm,Nevermind…..Ok ..still the victim, huh? Put on your best suit and rent a luxury car. Go to a public place in the “hood”, park and take 20 minute walk. You or the car will be a real victim before your walk is done…
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:55pmWhy? lies and poor education.
Now codependency and hand outs are a life style .
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teddrunk
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:52pmIt’s because the Communist-Democrats filled in after the Civil Rights wars of the 60s with blacks new found freedoms meaning, to their race, the free hand outs the Democrats promised them.
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N37BU6
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 2:49pmEven more important: Why is there a “black community” and a “black vote”?
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:03pmYeah I thought we were Americans,seems it’s easier to divide and conquer.
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Max jones
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:20pmThere is a cultural difference concerning black communities and white communities, and never the twain shall meet. It is a chasm. I play Blues music, and have been among the black community a lot, sometimes in juke joints where the only white face to be seen was in the bar mirror. Humility, in any form is seen as weakness in the black community. Self aggrandizement is normal. Fear is a determining factor in most dealings, and God is for Sunday, only. I generalize, of course, and I know many fine black folks….I am only talking about cultural influences.
Blacks, especially in the cities, are culturally insecure. They have a foundation, but it is built of political manipulation in the form of welfare slavery, sexual promiscuity, and a lack of moral responsibility. The dollar is truly “almighty” on the street. More important than life itself. In the words of that self glorious rapper, 50 cent…..”get rich or die trying.”
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